John Harbaugh: Ravens Press Conference 9/23/24

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Welcome to the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Monday, September 23rd, and the Ravens got their first win of the season on Sunday over the Dallas Cowboys. Today we had a chance to hear from head coach John Harbaugh during his weekly Monday afternoon presser.

John Harbaugh (2:00)

I appreciate you guys being here. I got back last night pretty late. Most, a lot of coaches came in, worked, went to sleep, got up, worked again, so we're getting into the grind now for Buffalo. They play tonight, so we'll probably watch that game on TV like you guys, like everybody else, but do all the work we can up until that point. And it'll be a big, big tough challenge for us. Sunday night football, our crowd, looking forward to that. So it'll be a big AFC game, and we're going to have to continue to improve a lot to be ready for that challenge. So what questions do you have?

Jameson (2:37)

John, first, happy birthday for you.

John Harbaugh (2:39)

Thank you, Jameson.

Jameson (2:41)

With Justin Tucker, he's now missed a few goals in each of the first games, which is not like him, all wide left. What do you make from the misses? And it also, I think the TV showed that you talked to Justin after, like as soon as the game ended, what was part of that conversation as well?

John Harbaugh (3:00)

Yeah, from a conversation standpoint, it was just, we're pretty close. We've been together for a long time, and had a lot of conversations, and, you know, we know each other. So that was just two guys talking about, you know, where we're at, and I just love the guy, respect him. He's everything that you want, and a player and a friend, so that was really the basis of that. But beyond that, you know, for Justin, it's just a technique issue right now that he's working through. I think he's got a technique thing going on, and he'll work through it. He knows exactly what it is, and just needs to smooth it back out, and I'm very confident that he will.

SPEAKER_7 (3:37)

Coach, what do you see on Philithor's biggest challenge as far as getting outscored in the fourth quarter in the past two games?

John Harbaugh (3:43)

Yeah, I mean, the two things go to that. You know, pass rush and pass coverage tie together, you know. So we definitely, we're rushing the pass sure well, but we can be a little more consistent in terms of our rush lanes and some of our games and things like that, and then being on point with that. And then coverage is just getting a little loose in the fourth quarter for whatever reason. So that's something that we just have to just understand. Sometimes a call is going to go against you. It may be right. It may not be right. But you can't let that change the way you play. You still got to play the coverage the way it's played. If it's an inside leverage, you play inside leverage. You know, if it's supposed to be down on a route, you're supposed to be down on a route, get down on it. So don't be playing like not to give up the big play all the time. Just play the defense the way it's been played. We've got really good players back there. And I'd like to see them play that way from a confident standpoint. The way they did the rest of the game. You know, we were we were forcing a lot of tight window throws in the first half. Play the same way in the third quarter and then play even more that way in the fourth quarter and make them earn it. And I do think sometimes we're just getting a little maybe it's under brain weighing in our brains a little bit about not letting that happen. And then it happens. So we're capable. We just got to get it done.